Meet Kat

I grew up in rural Ontario. I enjoyed the connection to nature, but everyone around me had deep roots in their community. I had moved a lot and often felt like I didn’t quite fit in. While I now see my sensitivity as a strength, being a sensitive child did not make this any easier. Beyond this, I faced other losses and darkness in childhood and throughout my life. I hope sharing some of my story will help you feel more comfortable to share yours.

When I left home for university, I loved living in the most diverse Ontario city outside of the GTA (for Windsor critics, the food there cannot be beat and I stand by this). I’ll always have a soft spot in my heart for this city, the place where I learned I was neurodivergent and could more openly embrace my queerness.

I know what it’s like to struggle with your mental health, and channeled my pain into focusing on grades and achievements. I didn’t realize at the time that my first experiences with therapy and peer counselling other students was beginning to shape my future and how I wanted to show up in the world and for myself.

During my master’s, the chronic pain I’d always lived with had got unmanageable. I was diagnosed with a chronic illness and forced to stop and look at the toll pushing so hard through life was taking. Here’s where things get cheesy. I had to learn that the place I belonged was inside of me all along. I learned how to treat myself more compassionately. I realized that if I wanted to help others and be the person I had needed when I was younger, that I needed to start being that person for myself.

I would be so honoured to support you in getting back to yourself. To learn how to be kind to yourself in a world that did not teach you how. To help you learn how to live with and work with your own brain. I know what it’s like to live in a world that doesn’t feel like it was built for you. To have experienced feeling othered for being different from the crowd. With me, your unique way of experiencing and moving through the world will always be appreciated and held close to my heart.

My Values

I named my practice to honour both my own unique lived experience as well as that of my clients’. Appreciating diversity is one of my core values not only in my therapy practice, but in my personal life. While I honour the challenges I have gone through, I also recognize that I hold privilege that my clients may not. I am dedicated to continuous learning about experiences that are different from my own.